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The Last Of The Millenniums

Poor Republicans keep voting for Republicans who want to cut Food Stamps and refuse to raise the minimum wage.

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Middle Class has become the New Poor

The Secular Jurist

Being middle class isn’t what it used to be. That isn’t so surprising, of course. Everything changes. One hundred years ago, you were considered middle class if you made $577 a year, according to TheCostofLiving.com. Today, many people make that much in a week. At least, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median weekly earnings of full-time workers for the first quarter of 2014 were $796.

But just what is middle class today? There seems to be a lot of evidence out there that the status of middle class is almost the new poor. To wit, in recent months:

http://money.msn.com/personal-finance/what-it-means-to-be-middle-class-today

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